Michael Leader’s Review “Gravity” Is a Fine, if Backloaded, Review

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Michael Leader’s “Gravity” is a fine little review with delightful hints of Britishness, but ultimately its overloaded back half loses focus.

A strong opening act here promises something more than reviews of a similar readtime typically do. It’s implied that the audience can expect an analysis that draws sharp distinctions between the nature of a thing and what the thing actually represents.

The dichotomy continues well into paragraph two, as Gravity muses about the internal versus the external, isolation and insulation. Here are a few flashes of Leader’s Britishness the reader will doubtless find delightful: the imperialistic refusal to insert diacritical marks above the “o” in Cuarón, avoidance of the letter “z” (zed, in Leader’s parlance), abbreviations without full stops.